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The “Berlin patient”: first person to be cured of AIDS

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28-07-2012 | 08:15

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The “Berlin patient”: first person to be cured of AIDS

The fate of 34 million persons across the world can be similar to that of Timothy Ray Brown known in the medical world as the “Berlin patient”. As researchers continue to look for a cure for HIV/AIDS, this citizen is believed to be the first person to be cured of HIV from which he suffered for over a decade.

It all started in 2007 when he received a stem-cell transplant that transferred genetic material to him from one of the 2 percent of people with a natural immunity to the disease.

The fact that he was diagnosed with Leukemia a year before helped doctors find out that transplanting blood stem cells would be a similar cure to cure patients living with HIV/AIDS.

Doctors made a great surgical achievement and they are encouraged to use the success of Brown’s surgery to help all people living with HIV/AIDS.

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